London Olympics

If you were wondering what to eat while watching the 2012 London Olympics following are some popular sandwiches from Great Britain.

• Breakfast Roll  The breakfast roll is a bread roll filled with elements of a traditional fry-up, designed to be eaten on the way to school or work. It can be purchased at a wide variety of petrol stations, local newsagents, supermarkets, and eateries throughout the Ireland and United Kingdom.
• Bacon Sandwich Bacon sandwiches are an all-day favourite throughout the United Kingdom. Rarely found on the menus of high class restaurants, they are often served in greasy spoons, and are anecdotally recommended as a hangover cure.
• British Rail Sandwich In British humour, the phrase British Rail sandwich refers to sandwiches sold for consumption on passenger trains of the former British Rail (BR). Its use principally arose in British popular culture through comedic references to the food item as emblematic of the unappetising fare available aboard Great Britain's railway service during the period of nationalisation from 1948 to 1994.
• Chip butty A chip butty, is a sandwich made with bread or a bread roll (usually white and buttered) and hot chips (i.e. French fries), often with some sort of sauce such as tomato sauce (i.e. ketchup) or brown sauce.^[1] The word butty is a contraction of "bread and butter" that came from northern England, perhaps Yorkshire or Liverpool.^[2]
• Crisp Sandwich A crisp sandwich is a sandwich that includes crisps (potato chips) as one of the fillings. In addition to the crisps, the other ingredients may be peanut butter, meat, cheese, tuna, ham, bologna, tomato, pâté, cucumber, or any other common sandwich ingredient. Potato chip sandwiches are sometimes referred to as "trailer park cuisine".
• Cucumber Sandwich The traditional cucumber sandwich is composed of paper-thin slices of cucumber placed between two thin slices of crustless, lightlybuttered white (or wheat in some cases) bread.
• Marmite   Marmite is the name given to two similar food spreads: the original British version, first produced in the United Kingdom and later South Africa, and a version produced in New Zealand. Marmite is made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing.
• Ploughman's Lunch It is a common menu item in English pubs, where it is served with a pint of beer. It is considered a cultural icon of England.^[2] The familiarity of the ploughman's lunch has led catering companies to describe a sandwich containing Cheddar cheese, pickle and salad as a "ploughman's sandwich".
• Tea Sandwich A tea sandwich is a small prepared sandwich meant to be eaten at afternoon teatime to stave off hunger until the main meal.